Tragic heart, magic art

Tragic Flying Attempt under the Influence of “magic Mushrooms”

In this study a fatal case caused by the ingestion of magic mushrooms is reported. After a trip to the Netherlands a young girl had ingested a handful of psilocybe mushrooms with a soft drink. Soon later, she was trying to fly from the window and died in the street while falling from a room situated on the second floor of a house. The victim was not known by the law enforcement authorities to b...

Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic

Two years before WADS began, my father Martin Demaine and my six-year-old self designed and made puzzles as the Erik and Dad Puzzle Company, which distributed to toy stores across Canada. So began our journey into the interactions between algorithms and the arts. More and more, we find that our mathematical research and artistic projects converge, with the artistic side inspiring the mathematic...

Hoodoo: Black Magic or Healing Art?

Retail Luxury Strategy: Assembling Charisma through Art and Magic

Luxury retail strategy differs from other retail strategies not merely in distinctive formulations of product, price, distribution, and appeals to customer distinction. Instead, it increasingly stands or falls on the legitimacy of a charismatic creative director. The director offers an aesthetic brand ideology. Luxury retail draws on the principles of art and magic to assemble the charismatic p...

Tragic and sudden death

the death of a child is probably the most traumatic event any parent can experience. this tragedy is made worse if the child dies in its sleep, appar­ ently for no reason. Sudden infant death syndrome (SiDS) inevitably strikes horror into parents’ hearts; it usually happens at night and occurs in complete silence—there is no fight for life or breath to warn parents that something is horribly wr...